Ammonathas moves to the center of the Magnaura to address the assembly.

My lords, as you have now all witnessed, the envoy from Helarionas Anargiros has sworn an oath of loyalty to his new master, Caesar Methodios. I trust that you all find this as amusing as I do. Imagine, one man swears an oath to another who has demonstrated to the entire world that he holds no value in such a thing. A supreme irony indeed.

And now, what do we hear? This same Helarionas Anargiros, who publicly proclaimed that he would abandon his army and set sail for Egypt to join his master, has instead landed his forces in our lands and set upon the army of Senator Andreas Dermokaitis. I trust now that any man here, regardless of where his loyalties lie, see this loathsome criminal as nothing more than a rank opportunist. His words shall always ring hollow, and any fool that would heed them will in time pay the price for their idiocy.

Ammonathas moves to approach the seats of the House of Ilios Korakas and now addresses the envoy for Helarionas.

And as for you good sir, if you would be so kind as to inform your lord, when he has finished his business with Senator Dermokaitis, and attempts to return to his haven of ships waiting to carry him off to safety....he will not find them. You may tell him that rather than look to the waters for safety, he should look below them. For his means of escape now lie at the bottom of the Adriatic.